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Earthrise: Apollo 8 and the First Lunar Voyage

Earthrise: Apollo 8 and the First Lunar Voyage

Recounts the flight many consider to be NASA's most daring and important. Interviews with Apollo 8 astronauts, their wives, mission control staff, and journalists take viewers inside the high-stakes space race of the late 1960s to reveal how a bold decision by NASA administrators put a struggling Apollo program back on track and allowed America to reach the moon before the Soviets. ﻿EARTHRISE: APOLLO 8 AND THE FIRST LUNAR VOYAGE﻿ airs Wednesday, April 29, 2015 at 10 p.m. on WXXI-TV.